K2019 | EXHIBITION REVIEW Wittmann weathers the storm
Wittmann Group’s sales will decline by 11% to €377m in 2019 due to the slowdown in the injection moulding sector, said Michael Wittmann, CEO, at K2019. All global markets are down, he said, with the exception of the US, which has been stable partly due to the US dollar being strong versus the euro. The German market has been the most seriously affected, said Wittmann at the group’s K2019 press conference. “There are a lot of Tier 1 [automotive] suppliers that have stopped invest- ment right now,” he said. There are similarities between the
current situation and the market decline that started in 2008-09, but the “big difference”, he said, is that now there is much more economic “fluctua- tion”, not simply a downward direction. This uncertainty makes it difficult to
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Oleoresins reinforced with bio-fibres are used by ZeroPlast for the material used to mould this cosmetics jar on Wittmann Battenfeld’s K2019 stand
give an outlook for 2020, but Wittmann said the group expects its sales to show a “further minus or [be] stable”. Rainer Weingraber, the new CEO of
Wittmann Battenfeld, said a series of projects at the group’s headquarters in Kottingbrunn, Austria, will culminate later in 2019 with a new office building
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for technology, production, quality and HR departments. On the group’s stand, an EcoPower 240/1100H/130L Combimould machine mould- ed a cosmetics jar in a material developed by ZeroPlast from its bio-sourced oleoresins reinforced with bio-fibres, which are recyclable and biodegradable. The machine also produced the jar’s lid in a different colour. A W842 pro robot inserted a paper label into the moving mould half for the bottom of the jar and removed the parts from the nozzle side. It passed the jars on to a W818 robot, which inserted them into a screwing station. The W842 pro brought the lids to the screwing station to combine with the jars. �
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